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President Donald Trump met Tuesday with health-care executives on what he’s calling the dynamic ventilator reserve, a program aimed at getting ventilators to coronavirus patients. Participants in the meeting included HCA Healthcare Inc. CEO Sam Hazen and Premier Inc. senior vice president Blair Childs. A senior administration official told Reuters the plan is a public-private …

Trump meets with health executives on ventilator loan programRead More

ANAE hosted it’s first ever ANAE Town Hall meeting this week with Joe Walsh, Founder, Supply Chain Sherpas, John Strong, Co-founder, Chief Consulting Officer, Access Strategy Partners, Inc. and Scott, Pecore, President of ANAE. Listen below for free to hear our expert panelists discuss a post pandemic healthcare supply chain, as well as what they …

First Ever ANAE Town Hall WebinarRead More

For those supply chain executives starting to plan for the Recovery phase, Eric O’Daffer, Research Vice President in the Gartner Healthcare Supply Chain group, suggest these three high level actions to consider: Revise your Strategic Plan for Supply Chain. At least look at modifying the 2020 deliverables to your strategic plan and align to the changing …

Healthcare Provider Supply Chain Response to COVID-19: Calling Your Shot for RecoveryRead More

Eugene Schneller is a professor of supply chain management at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His research and consulting focus on public and private health system procurement and healthcare supply chain strategy in the U.S. and globally.He recently wrote an article on Fast Company that talks about why our …

Without action, healthcare supply shortages will continue long after coronavirusRead More

Montefiore Medical Center, an 11-hospital system headquartered in the Bronx, is at the epicenter of New York’s Covid-19 surge. When reviewing early projections, leaders realized they would need to repurpose nearly every inch of their system into an ICU to care for the anticipated influx of critically ill Covid-19 patients. Below, see how they moved …

How Montefiore stood up an ICU command center for Covid-19—in just 2 weeksRead More

The Supply Chain Stabilization Task Force is executing a whole-of-America approach to address limited supply of critical protective and life-saving equipment. Through a four-prong approach of Preservation, Acceleration, Expansion and Allocation, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is bringing the full capacity of the federal government for support.Preservation to extend the life of PPE and …

Supply chain taskforce helps ramp up medical supply production during COVID-19Read More

John Bardis, former Assistant Secretary of Administration for Health and Human Services (HHS), and the founder and former CEO of MedAssets, joins the podcast during the height of the COVID 19 pandemic. John Pritchard, Publisher of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting, discusses the strength of collaboration between the public and private sectors in the fight …

New National Accounts Today Podcast Released with John BardisRead More

The number of healthcare workers who have tested positive for the coronavirus is likely far higher than the reported tally of 9,200, and U.S. officials say they have no comprehensive way to count those who lose their lives trying to save others. The CDC released the infection tally Tuesday and said 27 health worker deaths …

True toll of COVID-19 on U.S. healthcare workers unknownRead More

U.S. health care providers are expected to use 500 million N-95 masks this year, which is 20 times what they used last year. That massive demand has led the Pentagon to step in to help increase U.S. production. Healthcare company Premier Inc. earlier this month said its survey of U.S. hospitals found Covid-19 had created …

Burning Through Hundreds of Millions of N95 MasksRead More

As demand skyrockets for personal protective equipment to fight the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon has launched a new section of Prime dedicated to stocking and supplying gear like face masks, thermometers and protective gloves. Recode writes that PPE will be exclusively sold to hospitals and government organizations, and those interested in purchasing supplies must fill out …

Amazon launches special section to sell face masks and sanitizer—but just for health care workersRead More

FEMA will issue a temporary rule to allocate “certain scarce or threatened materials” for domestic use so that they are not exported from the U.S. without approval by the agency. Rule covers five types of personal protective equipment, including N95 filtering facepiece respirators, PPE surgical masks and PPE gloves or surgical gloves. Read More

FEMA to Issue Temporary Rule Blocking Export of PPE SuppliesRead More